Removing packages added by Virtualmin install on Debian

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Good morning,

I started playing with Virtualmin today and really find it to be a useful tool. I installed Webmin from the .deb package and then Virtualmin from the install.sh on a fresh minimal install of Debian 5.

There are some features of Virtualmin that I will not use, like postfix, as I don’t offer mail from my server. I disabled Mail in the Virtualmin features section and set the associated processes not to start at boot in Webmin.

When I tried to remove Postfix from apt-get it looked like it was going to remove part of Virtualmin. Is there a “right” way to uninstall unnecessary packages?

Related: I notice that all of the packages installed by Virtualmin are listed as automatically installed or no longer needed by apt-get, is there a way to correct this?

Thanks in advance,
Everett

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Howdy,

Yeah, Postfix is considered to be a dependency of Virtualmin… you won’t actually be able to remove the package, though you can certainly have it not start up at bootup if you prefer.

As far as the packages being no longer needed – is that only occurring while attempting to uninstall Postfix? You shouldn’t see any messages like that, and I don’t on my Debian system here… so I’m wondering if maybe it’s just showing up while attempting to uninstall Postfix.

-Eric